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I just got home from a hootenanny.

Yes, there was hay.

Humility is clearing your old bedroom of shit that has been collecting dust since 8th grade.

I went to bed really late last night, not because of DST but because I was compulsively reading through all of these notes that had been hiding in the darkest corners of my old closet. Even though it has been 13 years for some of these, I still feel...
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Another day, another snowstorm moving in, another friend getting a divorce. Go 2008!

In which Chris breaks his self-imposed SG exile.

I love George Michael. Yes, really. As such, all readers should listen to "Careless Whisper" while reading this post. Or after. Whenever, really.

There has been a nasty melancholy in the Oklahoma air lately, along with a rogue Influenza B strain against which the vaccine is powerless. The yo-yo weather (shorts yesterday! snow today!) has left everyone...
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Problem: Stuck answering the phones at work because the receptionist's daughter is sick (again), can't take a lunch because everyone else who could answer the phones is unavailable. Spirits and blood sugar drop dangerously.

Solution: Leave work an hour earlier than usual, eat a croissant a drink a double caffe correcto (grappa), read this month's CycleWorld, and pet my cat.

I think that next on...
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I haven't slept, and I have something like twenty hours of airports+flights ahead of me (with 8 hours stuck at o'hare--ugh). I seriously can scarcely function without sleep (and I seriously had to type this sentence three times), so I'm beginning to wonder how I am possibly going to make it to paris, much less with my luggage.

I think I have TMJ. when I had a retainer in middle school, I wore holes in it by grinding my teeth. my girlfriends have informed me that I still grind my teeth. now, my jaw is really sore, and it kinda pops when I move it side-to-side or open it really wide.

I would go to the dentist and ask about it, but I...
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ABOUT a million pounds of mardis gras beads, free to good home.

so I have this paper to write. I named it "Alan Turing: The Man and The Machine." it's basically a bio of turing, with another section at the end that is more specifically about the development of turing's specialized machine, and then the generalization into the universal turing machine, with discussion of the influences and applications that surround the development.

I had written down that...
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so I seem to be back on the SG cyberscene, thanks to the swank we-want-you-back deal.

I got a haircut last week. I get a haircut like twice a year; I don't really ever think about my hair, so it just gets longer and messier until I get sick of it and get several inches cut off all at once. I'm pretty happy with it...
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